How do Hong Kong people learn English?

Before the reunification, Hong Kong was a British colony. English is the official language and Cantonese is the lingua franca.

All primary schools, middle schools and universities teach in English.

There are also many foreigners living in Hong Kong.

Therefore, the overall English level in Hong Kong is still relatively high.

The way Hong Kong people learn English is very different from that in China! What Hong Kong people call "dictation" is called "dictation" in China, which means that the teacher reads a word and the students write it. In the past, students wrote in notebooks, and teachers corrected them with notebooks. This method is not only boring for students, but also a heavy workload for teachers to correct. Now they use electronic wordpad, and the program is set in advance. Students write words on the electronic version with a pen, click Submit, and the right or wrong result will appear immediately. Students find this process more interesting, and the teacher saves the effort of correcting, which improves the efficiency a lot.

Primary school students in Hong Kong are learning English word spelling in grades 1-2. The teacher teaches the spelling rules of English words. When the teacher reads a simple word, the students spell it according to the rules. What they need to pay attention to is whether the spelling is correct, but they don't know the meaning of the words. 1-2 grade students' English class content is basically "dictation".

By the third day, in addition to "memorizing" more complicated words, I began to learn some simple meanings. After two years of "dictation", students are already very familiar with the spelling and pronunciation of these simple words, and it is not difficult to learn their meanings. A junior high school student interviewed in the program said that after learning English in primary school, he was admitted to an English middle school and felt that there was no difficulty in attending classes.

Indeed, English spelling is a big difficulty. Even in English-speaking America, English spelling contests are often held. There are many words that are not commonly used. Even if you remember the meanings, you can remember their pronunciations, but it is really difficult to spell them accurately. A lazy cat who is ashamed always looks it up in the dictionary to determine whether there is a spelling mistake. If you can really master spelling first, it is equivalent to mastering a key to learning English. You can answer it when you want to get started in the future, and it will be much easier to learn!